If the recent season finale of Doctor Who made you despair of waiting a year for the next season to start (with only two holiday episodes between now and then to alleviate the pain), then try watching this fan-made trailer for the show. It’s quite well-done (and there are no spoilers for the last episode).

Sigh. Yeah, now the wait will be even worse. And I should know: I’m a doctor.

Oh– there are two other fun DW vids, if you’re so inclined: this one, a Series 6 synopsis that is spoiler-ish, and this one, which is a quite spoilery funny mashup of the good Doctor with Tik Tok from Lady Gaga Ke$ha. Yes, seriously.

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Fortunately (in a way), I’ve only seen a couple of episodes of season “six” (I consider it season 33 – counting the “specials” as a season), so I will get to savor them as i get the new discs finally. (And get a new power supply for my 65″ high def TV. )

I hate to say it, but I think this actually made the waiting worse. I guess the only thing to do know is what is suggested in the trailer – mega marathon of everything over the last 50 years (minus the lost episodes).

Our cable company recently started carrying BBC America, just in time for a Doctor Who marathon followed by a Battlestar Galactica marathon. Our kids are hooked on Doctor Who.

Fortunately, we don’t need Netflix, as our local library is part of the county’s library system, and we can borrow any book/DVD from any of the county’s libraries. (And, if you don’t mind waiting a few days, they deliver it — free of charge — to your local library.)

Can anyone point me to the name of the collection to get if we wanted to watch the very beginning? (Starting with the first episode with the first Doctor.) Their naming convention is a bit confusing to me, as we just borrowed two different sets, both called “the complete fourth series”. (I think one was the 10th and the other the 11th Doctor.)

I should add, the original series was more geared toward being educational, regarding historic events, with far less science fiction and it wasn’t until 1968 that it finally jumped fully into science fiction.

In that case, can someone point me to an episode which could fill in the gaps in my knowledge, having started only recently, and only seen the 10th and 11th Doctors? For instance, I understand that the TARDIS is, umm…, “borrowed”, and the Doctor is the last of the Time Lords. Is there an episode which explains all this directly, rather than merely by reference?

Thanks.

BTW, we are all enjoying Doctor Who, even without necessarily knowing all of the backstory.

ToSeek — the Sixth Doctor was indeed in there! They did get all eleven in. 😉 I was particularly pleased to see #8 in there a couple of times; Paul McGann did a fine job with the brief opportunity he had, and his Doctor really got short shrift because of the circumstances.

It would be delightful to see a mega-marathon of every extant episode! It would gobble up an awful lot of programming time, though, and is consequently probably impractical for actual broadcast. I wonder how long it would actually take…..

In “The Doctor’s Wife”, modern episode, creepy stuff, he talks about the time he “borrowed” the TARDIS, a bit. It happened off-screen, of course. The 1969 story “The War Games” has the Time Lords catching up with him when he has to call them in to deal with the season finale enemy. he has returned home a few more times since then.

The Doctor is the last Time Lord because he used a time-weapon to destroy the remaining Time Lords -and- the Daleks despite their ability to travel in time and get away. He saw that whichever side won would go on to devastate the universe, probably retrospectively. It’s discussed from the Time Lord point of view at the start of part two of “The End of Time”.